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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From fiscal year 2016-2017 through 2019-2020, seven of the eighteen DCJ-funded Colorado juvenile diversion programs received additional resources from the Marijuana Tax Fund to address substance use among the youth their programs serve. While all juvenile diversion programs worked to address the needs of youth in their programs, these seven programs received additional funds to explicitly support substance use-related training and certifications for...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in women in 1981 and by 1990 had become the sixth leading cause of death in 25 to 44 year old women in the United States. By 1999 women accounted for 23% of all new AIDS diagnoses and 32% of newly reported HIV diagnoses. By 1995, heterosexual transmission surpassed injection drug use as the most common mode of transmission in women.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Since 2009, Colorado has seen an almost yearly increase in the number of suicide deaths. Between 2015 and 2017 in Colorado, there were 222 suicide deaths of young people between the ages of 10 and 18. Of those deaths, 67.6 percent were male (150 deaths) and 32.4 percent were female (72 deaths). Interviews gathered information about youth suicide in each community, such as activities and efforts related to prevention, the current impact of suicide...